Jubber

Sir John Pocklington was, on the contrary, the dirty little snuffy man who cried out so about the bad quality of the beer, and grumbled at being overcharged three-halfpence for a herring, seated at the next table to Jubber on the day when some one pointed the Baronet out to me.

The Book of Snobs 2006

On the 1st of July we left this sad region, and pitched our tents some five miles further onwards, in a pleasant meadow, where we met a brother of Dost Mahommed, the well-known Sird [= a] r Jubber Kh [= a] n, who arrived in the course of the day from the interior of Toorkist [= a] n, and encamped close to us.

A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

European notions of propriety by their open disregard of what we are accustomed to consider the decencies of society; but Jubber Kh [= a] n seemed to have all the good qualities and few of the vices so prevalent in the Affgh [= a] n character.

A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

Whilst encamped here the united seraglios of Dost Mahommed and Jubber

A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

Jubber wanted to give less than ten shillings; but between threatening, and saying it should buy twenty shillings 'worth of tailor's work, she got the better of him.

Hide and Seek Wilkie Collins 1856

I'm going to make Jubber put his dirty hand into his pocket and pull out some money; and that's a sight worth stoppin 'to see any day in the week.'

Hide and Seek Wilkie Collins 1856

Him and Jubber made it out together that he was to act a wild man, flying for his life across some desert, with his only child, and poor little Mary was to be the child.

Hide and Seek Wilkie Collins 1856

Jubber first said he wanted her to perform with the riders; and I said 'No' at once, though I was awful frightened of him in those days.

Hide and Seek Wilkie Collins 1856

'Costoom,' to do what Peggy wanted -- Jubber being too stingy to pay the regular people who understand such things.

Hide and Seek Wilkie Collins 1856

If we are not back to the two o'clock dinner in the circus, it's unknown what Jubber may not do.

Hide and Seek Wilkie Collins 1856